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On Monday, Sven, Sebastian, Moritz, Jan and me traveled to Cambridge where the Code Generation Conference takes place each year. Arriving one day ahead we had enough time to acclimate with fish 'n chips and some ale ...

Reading tweets, newsgroup posts, blogs, articles or press releases I am very excited to notice that xText gains increasing attention. As far as I can see most newcomers learn about xtext as a great tool to create ...

Yesterday's Eclipse DemoCamp in Hamburg was a successful social event. The organizers Peter and Martin scheduled the Eclipse Stammtisch directly after the demo sessions so that many known but (to me) even more unknown faces gathered together ...

The Generation Gap Pattern is a common way to weave manually written code into generated software artifacts. While this pattern describes how to structure your classes logically it does not teach you where to place these classes ...

Sebastian and me had the opportunity to give some exciting Xtext Workshops during the last two weeks. Starting with internal trainings at different offices of itemis we continued our tour to our customers. In groups from 4 ...

Today, Google announced that the Google App Engine will support Java. This is great news for every Java developer who wants to experiment with the cloud. At the moment Google grants an "early look" to only a ...

This year's EclipseCon in Santa Clara was not only about Eclipse itself. For me, a silent observer who noticed this event only via the web, it acts like an important hub for many ideas and achievements inside ...

According to the project plan we have published the sixth milestone version of TMF Xtext this Tuesday. Please note, this is not a release candidate, yet. Nevertheless, it's another huge step towards the Galileo release in June ...

Heiko Behrens

is a programmer, author, and public speaker with more than a decade of commercial software development, technical writing, and on-stage presentation experience. As an active committer at Eclipse and as an involved participant in numerous other open source projects, he has in-depth experience in a broad range of technologies. His startup BeamApp, still in stealth mode, is focussed on mobile application development, both native cross-platform and web-based.